Halloween Week comes with great treats and for Lansing Lugnuts mascot Big Lug, there was no better treat than Lugnuts fan Lenni dropping by the ballpark to show him her Big Lug costume.

Lenni, her parents Abby and Dustin, and her grandmother Teri surprised Big Lug at Jackson® Field™, providing the

LANSING, Mich. – Boom Ball, the high-energy baseball experience, today announced its 30-city 2027 tour, with a return to Lansing at Jackson® Field™ on August 14, 2027. With select 2027 dates already sold out, the fast-growing show will introduce a groundbreaking new attraction: Babe Ruth.

The 2027 Boom Ball Babe Ruth Hologram Tour will

The Lugnuts' 132-game 2027 Midwest League schedule is now official, with a 66-game home schedule from April 6 through September 5.

• One-page vertical printable schedule

• One-page horizontal printable schedule

See you next April!

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It has been two years since Javier Cavazos passed away.

He was born in San Juan, Texas, on Christmas Eve in 1946. He was meant to be named Xavier, but the nurses at the hospital changed the X to a J on his birth certificate, so Javier he became.

The Cavazos family

The Los Angeles Dodgers have 2004 Lugnut Mark Prior as their pitching coach.

And... that's it for our representation, which means that this season will be the first since 2006 in which a former Lugnut will not be playing in the World Series.

2007: Jeremy Affeldt, Colorado
2008: Chad Durbin, Philadelphia
2009:

Peter Poertner's the pick!

Minor League Baseball announced on October 6 that Lansing Lugnuts visiting clubhouse manager Peter Poertner was voted the 2026 Midwest League Visiting Clubhouse Manager of the Year.

Poertner, a resident of Howell, served in the U.S. Navy and worked as a firefighter, EMT and paramedic along his journey to the

In the National League,

No. 4 Padres vs. No. 1 Brewers

• The Padres (as mentioned in the Wild Card guide) have 2022 Lugnut Mason Miller and 2018 Lugnut Samad Taylor (0-for-3, 2 K vs. the Cubs).

It's been a rollercoaster of emotions for Miller, who blew a save in Game 2 on a two-out, two-run, walk-off single from

The 2026 MLB regular season is over and it's time to crown a champ. Welcome to the postseason!

Beginning Tuesday...

The 2026 Lansing Lugnuts season was a big one for big numbers. Consider:

In their 30th season in Lansing, the Nuts welcomed in their 1,000th player, earned their 2,000th win, and played their 4,000th game.

Why stop there?

.311... the National League-leading batting average for Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Gabriel Moreno (2019 Lugnut), who

A statement from the Lansing Lugnuts on former Lansing mayor David Hollister, who passed away Tuesday, September 22.

It is with great sadness that we mourn David Hollister, to whom we owe the very existence of Jackson Field and the Lansing Lugnuts. We pass along our heartfelt condolences to the Hollister

With the Michigan State Spartans in town for the Crosstown Showdown exhibition, Devin Taylor and the Lugnuts took the opportunity to show off their sleek black and silver road unis at home.

LANSING, Mich. – The Lansing Lugnuts and Team Lyders Taco Bell announced a donation of $5,000 to the Capital Area Humane Society, presented at Jackson® Field™ on September 21.

The donation was raised by Lugnuts fans playing the popular Price is Right-styled Plinko game throughout the 2026 season.

For more information about CAHS,

With the 2026 Midwest League season in the books – congrats to Quad Cities, by the way – let's remember our favorite moments and performances from the 30th year of Lugnuts baseball:

Watch the full reel of Lugnuts superlatives

As decided in a vote of the Midwest League's broadcasters and media relations directors, the Lansing Lugnuts' Jesse Goldberg-Strassler has been named the Midwest League's 2026 Broadcaster of the Year.

Goldberg-Strassler was previously voted MWL Broadcaster of the Year in 2013, and was named Minor League Baseball's Broadcaster of the Year in 2019

When the prestigious, prospect-filled Arizona Fall League opens its 30-game schedule on October 3, the rosters will look familiar.

The Mesa Solar Sox, comprising prospects from the Athletics, Cubs, Red Sox, Angels and Blue Jays' organizations, include...

• Pitcher Tucker Novotny, who fired five scoreless innings with six strikeouts in the final

Throughout the 2026 season, Lansing Lugnuts manager Javier Godard kept a list of all the players that had been promoted from his team to the next level of the minor league system. For Godard, keeping a count is tradition.

“I've always done that just to remember the guys, and as other

LANSING, Mich. – Tucker Novotny fanned six batters over five scoreless innings, but Yimy Tovar and Rosman Verdugo homered in the 11th inning to lift the Fort Wayne TinCaps (29-35, 56-74) to a 10-3 win over the Lansing Lugnuts (27-38, 56-73) in a Sunday matinee at JacksonⓇ Field™, closing out the 2026 season.

In

LANSING, Mich. – Kerrington Cross went 4-for-4 with three doubles and two RBIs and the Lansing Lugnuts (27-37, 56-72) stranded 13 baserunners en route a 4-1 loss to the Fort Wayne TinCaps (28-35, 55-74) on Fan Appreciation Night in front of a Saturday-evening crowd of 5,486 at JacksonⓇ Field™.

The victory

LANSING, Mich. – Carlos Rodriguez went 3-for-3 with a two-run homer in the second and an RBI single in the fourth to spur the Fort Wayne TinCaps (27-35, 54-74) to a 8-6 victory over the Lansing Lugnuts (27-36, 56-71) on Friday night at JacksonⓇ Field™.

In defeat, Lansing first baseman Jake Reinisch went 2-for-5 with

LANSING, Mich. – Tzu-Chen Sha struck out six in four dominant scoreless innings, and the Lansing Lugnuts’ (27-35, 56-70) offense collected 12 hits to down the Fort Wayne TinCaps (26-35, 53-74), 8-2, under the lights on Thursday night at JacksonⓇ Field™.

Rodney Green Jr. (3-for-4, one walk, one RBI), Jake Reinisch (3-for-4, three RBIs, one walk), **Jared

For Jared Davis, becoming a professional baseball player wasn't always the plan.

The Orlando native grew up playing both basketball and football, looking to athletes such as Kyrie Irving and Tavon Austin as players he wanted to emulate. Baseball, meanwhile, wasn't something Davis took particularly seriously until he was 16 years

LANSING, Mich. – Jackson Nove pitched a career-high 5 ⅔ innings, allowing just one run, and the offense exploded for eight runs in the fourth inning to catapult the Lansing Lugnuts (26-35, 55-70) to a resounding 10-1 win over the Fort Wayne TinCaps (26-34, 53-73) on Wednesday night at JacksonⓇ Field™.

The Lugnuts continue

After five months of baseball and 123 games, the Lansing Lugnuts (25-34, 54-69) host the Fort Wayne TinCaps (25-33, 52-72) this week for a six-day, seven-game series to cap off the 2026 campaign.

This will be the third time the Nuts and ‘Caps have clashed this season; Lansing took four wins

Series Introduction: Players and coaches often take the spotlight when it comes to baseball media and fans. But there are so many other people that contribute to a baseball team that may not get as much recognition as they deserve.

*This series is designed to highlight a few of the supporting

LANSING, Mich. – Jake Reinisch crushed a 441-foot solo home run in the eighth to force extra innings, but a Robbie Lavey two-run double in the 11th powered the Manzanas Luchadoras de Fort Wayne (26-33, 53-72) to a 6-4 win over the Lansing Locos (25-35, 54-70) in an all-Copa Tuesday night duel